Here at the museum we have multiple projects that are handled not only by our regular staff, but also our interns. While working on his summer internship project of inventorying and creating a better storage solution for the museum’s trophy collection, Cameron Anderson stumbled upon an interesting problem. The problem […]
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Control Line 75th Anniversary
On Friday, July 20, 2012 noted Control Line Historian Charles Mackey, along with special guest Ms. Shirley St. Clair will be presenting a program celebrating the 75th anniversary of Oba St. Clair’s Control Line achievements. A reproduction of the Miss Shirley, Oba St. Clair’s first Control Line model flown in […]
Continue readingMemorial Day Weekend Hours
Just a note to say that the National Model Aviation Museum is celebrating Memorial Day, Monday, May 28, 2012 by switching to holiday hours. This means that the museum will be open from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. We are open Friday, May 25, 2012 from 8:00 am to 4:30 pm. […]
Continue readingTake Flight Makes the News
The Take Flight! exhibit, the new traveling exhibit on loan from ScienceWorks Hands-On Museum, opened at the National Model Aviation Museum last Monday. Last Friday, it made the paper. You can read the story at The Star Press. Hope you get a chance to visit and have some fun! The […]
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For the first time in many years, the National Model Aviation Museum is adding gallery space. The new gallery is 1,100 square feet and is located in what used to be the Plans area. (Plans isn’t going away, though – the office has just moved into another area of the […]
Continue readingQuick Fix
Broken dowel rod in the Buhl Pup I could write at length about all of the thought and philosophy of repairing, restoring and conserving artifacts in museum settings. It is a question that the staff at the National Model Aviation Museum discuss and debate on a regular basis. While we have […]
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